Unit 5 Terms

Question 1

Absolutism

Answer 1

A system of government where one single ruler holds absolute power; basically monarchy.

Question 2

Humanism

Answer 2

Belief that a man’s fate is determined by himself rather than religion

Question 3

Checks and Balances

Answer 3

Shared powers between the seperation of powers

Question 4

Constitution

Answer 4

Supreme Law of the U.S. made of amendments

Question 5

Czar

Answer 5

An emperor of Russia before 1917

Question 6

Divine Right

Answer 6

The right given to a king or queen to rule a country

Question 7

Enlightenment

Answer 7

Rebirth period of European political, philosophy, religious, scientific, etc. values led by people with a belief that life could be bettered by this change

Question 8

Equality

Answer 8

all men were created equal and that no one should be born into more power than another

Question 9

Grievance

Answer 9

Complaint or protest against unfair treatment

Question 10

Guillotine

Answer 10

a method of executing those condemned to death during the French Revolution.

Question 11

Individual Human Rights

Answer 11

rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status (life, liberty, and the persaute of happiness)

Question 12

Jacobin

Answer 12

was a member of the Jacobin Club, a revolutionary political movement that was the most famous political club during the French Revolution

Question 13

Liberty

Answer 13

a state of freedom, especially as opposed to political subjection, imprisonment, or slavery. Its two most generally recognized divisions are political and civil liberty. liberty.

Question 14

Nationalism

Answer 14

an ideology that emphasizes loyalty, devotion, or allegiance to a nation or nation-state and holds that such obligations outweigh other individual or group interests.

Question 15

Popular Sovernity

Answer 15

government based on consent of the people.

Question 16

Regime

Answer 16

the ruling government of a country

Question 17

Salon

Answer 17

informal education for women

Question 18

Secularism

Answer 18

the separation of religion from civil affairs and the state

Question 19

Separation of Powers

Answer 19

an act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies.

Question 20

Social Contract

Answer 20

an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection.

Question 21

Westernization

Answer 21

the adoption of the practices and culture of western Europe by societies and countries in other parts of the world, whether through compulsion or influence

Question 22

Catholicism

Answer 22

Catholicism is the traditions and beliefs of Catholic Churches

Question 23

Dark Ages

Answer 23

fall of the Western Roman Empire; period of decline in culture and science